Ali ibn al-Athir
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| Muslim historian |
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| Name: | Izz ad-Dīn Abu al-Hassan Ibn al-Athīr |
| Title: | ibn al-Athir |
| Birth: | 1160 CE, Cizre, present-day Turkey |
| Death: | 630 AH (1233) [1] |
| Maddhab: | Sunni |
| Main interests: | History |
| Works: | The Complete History and The Lions of the Forest and the knowledge about the Companions |
| Influenced: | Abul Fida Ismail Hamvi |
Abu al-Hassan Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Muhammad[2], better known as Ali 'izz al-Din Ibn al- Athir al-Jazari[3] (1160 – 1233) was an Arab muslim historian born in Cizre, a town in present-day Şırnak province in south-eastern Turkey, from the Ibn Athir family. According to the 1911 Edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica, he was born in Jazirat Ibn Umar in Kurdistan [2]. According to the Encyclopaedia of Islam, he was Kurdish [4].
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[edit] Biography
He spent a scholarly life in Mosul, but often visited Baghdad. For a time he was with Saladin's army in Syria and later lived in Aleppo and Damascus. His chief work was a history of the world, al-Kamil fi at-tarikh (The Complete History). He includes some information on the Rus' people in his chronology.
[edit] Works
- The Complete History (Arabic: Al-Kamil fi al-Tarikh).
- The Lions of the Forest and the knowledge about the Companions (Arabic: Usud al-Ghabah fi Ma'rifah al-Sahabah).
[edit] See also
[edit] Notes
- ^ Fourth to Seventh century
- ^ Ali, the father of Hasan and son of Muhammad who was the son of Muhammad
- ^ Ali, height of belief, son of Athir, from Jazar
- ^ [1][dead link]
[edit] External links
- http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9041903
- Ibn al-Athīr's Accounts of the Rūs: A Commentary and Translation by William E. Watson from Canadian/American Slavic Studies
- http://www.lib.umich.edu/area/Near.East/islhist.html
- http://www.bogvaerker.dk/Bookwright/rijal.html
- Kurds and Kurdistan, Encyclopaedia of Islam.
